Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

DISCRIMINATION ACT 1991 - SECT 33

    (1)     Section 10 or 13 does not make it unlawful for a person (the first person ) to discriminate against someone else in relation to—

        (a)     employment as a member of the staff of an educational institution; or

        (b)     a position as a contract worker that involves doing work in an educational institution;

if the institution is conducted in accordance with the doctrines, tenets, beliefs or teachings of a particular religion or creed, and the first person so discriminates in good faith to avoid injury to the religious susceptibilities of adherents of that religion or creed.

    (2)     Section 18 does not make it unlawful for a person (the first person ) to discriminate against someone else in relation to the provision of education or training by an educational institution that is conducted in accordance with the doctrines, tenets, beliefs or teachings of a particular religion or creed, if the first person so discriminates in good faith to avoid injury to the religious susceptibilities of adherents of that religion or creed.